Michael Saylor Says Bitcoin Protocol Changes Should Be 'Rare,' Not Serve Any Faction's 'Convenience' Amid BIP-110 Debate

Strategy Inc. ) founder Michael Saylor argued on Tuesday that Bitcoin faces the gravest threat not from an external attack but the internal “corruption” of its consensus rules.Saylor Against Changing Rules to Please ‘Factions’In an X thread, Saylor framed Bitcoin’s consensus rules as its “constitution.” Changing them for the convenience of any faction, he added, attacks the economic rights of current participants and future generations.Saylor criticized software upgrade proposals such as for censoring fee-paying transactions. He had argued last week that the proposal does not rectify any known critical bugs or established consensus failures.“Different instruments, same constitutional offense: a faction rewrites Bitcoin’s rules and imposes its agenda, costs, and risks on everyone,” he added.Bitcoin has won. Now it must survive victory.Its gravest threat is not an enemy at the gates, but corruption from within: factions that invent pretexts, rewrite the rules, and seize economic rights until freedom becomes permission and law becomes loot.‘Defend Bitcoin’s Constitution’Saylor insisted that Bitcoin’s base layer must remain simple, neutral, scarce, and secure, with protocol upgrades occurring only when truly necessary and kept to a minimum.“Defend Bitcoin’s constitution. Defend the future,” the Bitcoin bull added. Read Also: The Big DebateThe BIP-110 proposes a temporary soft fork that introduces restrictions on transactions containing large amounts of “non-monetary data,” including Ordinal inscriptions, and refocuses priorities on improving Bitcoin as "money."The proposal is approaching a pivotal activation period in early August 2026Samson Mow, CEO of Bitcoin technology company JAN3, shares Saylor’s concerns. He said last week that the consensus change to block certain fee-paying data transactions will set an irreversible precedent, turning Bitcoin into a fiat currency."BIP-110 would turn Bitcoin into a fiat currency." 🚨 explains why changing Bitcoin's consensus rules to block a category of fee-paying transactions sets a precedent nobody can walk back from, one that threatens the 21 million coin cap itself, on . Veteran Bitcoin trader Fred Krueger remains one of the proposal’s biggest advocates. He mocked Saylor’s opposition to BIP-110 as AI-generated.Saylor's AI anti-BIP 110 engine is operating on overload.Price Action: At the time of writing, BTC was exchanging hands at $64,306.76, up 1.44% in the last 24 hours, according to data from Benzinga Pro. Read Also: Tom Lee Says Bitcoin, Ethereum Decoupling Chip Stocks Is Its '1934 Moment'